| 50 Ways to Make Your Next Auction a Success |
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| Written by Jeff Merron, Contributing Editor | |||
| Tuesday, 22 July 2008 16:15 | |||
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Hosting an auction that is fun for everyone and a successful fundraiser is much like staging a signature event. Your job is to attract an audience, entertain guests and deliver an appealing product. With a few tips and cMarket's help, you can put on a wonderful show that will help your nonprofit's cause in many ways. And you'll have a good time doing it. {botdocman id=15} Hosting an auction that is fun for everyone and a successful fundraiser is much like staging a signature event. Your job is to attract an audience, entertain guests and deliver an appealing product. With a few tips and cMarket's help, you can put on a wonderful show that will help your nonprofit's cause in many ways. And you'll have a good time doing it. {botdocman id=44} | |||
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About the Author: Dianne Crampton is Group Development Consultant and Leadership Coach. For the past twenty years she has helped not-for-profit leaders and their teams learn how to work well together to consistently achieve goals with high levels of group and individual satisfaction. She is also the founder of the TIGERS group development model. The model addresses six collaborative core values necessary for creating an ethical, quality-focused and successful team culture. The values are trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. The TIGERS model passed a rigorous validation study through Gonzaga University and was Crampton’s dissertation for her Master’s of Arts designation in Organizational Leadership. As president of TIGERS Success Series, Dianne has published in a business anthology endorsed by Stephen Covey and written for trade magazines. Merrill Lynch nominated her business for Inc. Magazine’s regional small business and entrepreneurial awards. Her work with Native Americans was recognized at a United Nations sponsored conference in 1994. Dianne is also the creator and distributor of the TIGERS Team Wheel game. This game helps Board Chairs and Executive Directors identify behaviors that build collaborative groups and behaviors that cause conflict, morale problems, production failures, and misunderstandings. For more information go to http://www.corevalues.com/Game.htm |